Analyst (Customer Analytics)

The Financial Times (FT)

London, UK

Nov 2018 - (present)

The FT has over 600 journalists that work in 40 bureaux around the world. We have over one million paid subscribers. The team in which I work is called Customer Analytics; we are responsible for the collection, management and analysis of the FT’s internal data.

My responsibilities have included:

• Product initiative scoring and prioritisation.
• Modelling the FT’s subscriber retention.
• Evaluating business changes using financial models.
• Segmenting and targeting and customers using data.

Analyst

ICBC Standard Bank (ICBCS)

London, UK

May 2018 - July 2018

ICBCS is a financial markets and commodities bank based in London and with offices all around the world. The Client Referential Data (CRD) team is responsible for managing client static and reference data used across the bank.

My responsibilities included:

• Capture and maintenance of client data and settlement instructions.
• Managing subscriptions from market data sources.
• Performing reconciliations between internal systems.

Specialist

Maitland Group South Africa

Cape Town, ZA

Mar 2015 - Nov 2017

Maitland Group is a global advisory and administration firm providing third-party fund administration to managers of pension funds, mutual funds, hedge funds and private equity funds. Maitland has offices in 13 countries and has $280 billion in assets under administration.

My responsibilities included:

• Import and maintenance of client reference data.
  
• The rapid import of financial data from market sources (Bloomberg, Reuters etc).
  
• Building integration between systems and applications.
  
• Having extensive knowledge on a wide range of financial instruments.
  
• Provide analysis and output data for audit and compliance purposes.
  
• Providing bespoke reporting to clients.
  
• Using systems from FIS and Neoxam (both previously Sungard)
• Using systems from Broadridge Financial Solutions (formally called Paladyne Systems)

{gs} (author, maintainer).

A grammar of recurring calendar events. A package to make recurring calendar events a little easier by providing a simple grammar for expressing them using R code.

N/A

Nov 2018 - (present)

The package includes functions to:

• Represent all kinds of date elements found in the lubridate package: years, months, weeks, days, weekdays, quarters, semesters etc.
  
• Represent dates in terms of their relations to one another, such as the “third Friday of July” or the “last Thursday in August”.
  
• Specify ranges of dates, such as “after the first Monday in July” but “before the last weekday of August”.
  
• Compose the above elements together in arbitrarily complex patterns.